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“What Tim eventually said….was that he didn’t want to go to school because he thought the school was trying to kill him.”
John Miller, a podiatrist in Allegany, N.Y, says this about his 12-year-old son, who has Asperger Syndrome, and who was, according to a July 15th New York Times article, held down prone on the […]
Sunday brought another report of an individual on the autism spectrum—13-year-old Anthony Kiraly, who has Asperger Syndrome, of Empire, Wisconsin—-who wandered away from his home and was found 20 miles away after the Sheriff’s Department had been contacted and conducted a full-scale search by ground and helicopter. Elopement—wandering—has been a not-uncommon story in the news […]
A 3-year-old girl who has a “form of autism” was treated at a hospital and released after jumping out of her mother’s moving car. KY3 reports that:
The mother called 911 to report the girl jumped out of the moving car near the intersection of Farm Road 171 at Farm Road 66, south of Highway KK […]
Keith Kennedy was found last Sunday night. Another story of an autistic individual wandering, and into water: A 4-year-old boy, Derek Casanova-Gonzalez, was found unconscious in an outdoor fountain in Clayton, North Carolina, and is now in the hospital. The News-Observer reports that his parents were cleaning a nearby early childhood center and realized […]
Something that has been particularly bothering me about 2-year-old Jarret Farrell and his mother being removed from an American Eagle airplane earlier this week is (according to news reports) a flight attendant repeatedly tugging on the toddler’s seatbelt to tighten it, while “reprimanding and yelling.” It’s this kind of physical—excessively physical—force that is too often […]
Last Saturday night, May 25th, a 10 year old autistic boy wandered from his home in Graham, NC, and was struck by a train. WCNC news reports that police were looking for him when he was struck.
I think of the street I pass occasionally with the sign proclaiming “Autistic Child” and I wonder, is there […]
Amber Altemose, who has autism, has been missing from her home in Live Oak, Florida, since approximately 8pm Thursday evening, WCTV reports. I remember last October when Jacob Allen was missing and found—-hope Amber is soon.
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The bouncy castle.
How often have we beheld one rising in its multicolored puffy glory, tethered to the tramped-on grass with cords and a machine with a fan running loud and hot to keep the bounce in the castle?
Charlie would stare wide-eyed and he’d walk over quickly, his hand in Jim’s. This being a couple of […]
This past Thursday in Virginia, a 24 year old autistic man was tazered by James City County police after he was to “become unruly with employees at Wilsons Leather at the Prime Outlets-Williamsburg shopping mall,” according to the Daily Press. It was only after the man was placed under arrest and charged with […]
On January 23rd, 5-year-old Anyah Raven Glossinger—who was legally blind and autistic—drowned in a mineral pool while undergoing hydrotherapy, today’s CBS2 (Palm Springs) reports. Glossinger had been participating in the United Cerebral Palsy’s Little Bridges after-school program; two of the coaches supervising her, Elva Lerma and Sixto Mitre, are now on paid leave.
It’s hardly the […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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